© 2022 Daisy Ziyan Zhang


FILMOGRAPHY

“SHE CROSSED”
2024, Award for Excellence, Image Forum Festival, Japan

“ONE BEAM, SHAPED”
2024, Official Selection, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

“BREAK”
2024, Best International Film Award, ArchiShorts | Architecture+Design Film Festival Winnipeg, Canada
2024, Finalist, 48H Open House Barcelona Música x Arquitectura, Spain

“WRINKLES”
2024, Official Selection, Arquitectura Film Festival Santiago, Chile
2023, Official Selection, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023, Official Selection, ArchFilmLund Film Festival, Sweden
2023, Finalist, Venice Architecture Film Festival, Italy 
2023, Finalist, 17th Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, Türkiye
2023, Official Selection, Vienna Architektur. Film. Sommer 2023, Austria
2023, (excerpt “Caretaking”) Shortlisted, Copenhagen Architecture Festival Film Mosaic Competition, Denmark
2023, Winner, “Transmedial Media Architecture” at Media Architecture Biennale, Canada

“NO LEFTOVERS NO LEFT OUT”
2024, Official Selection, ArchFilmLund Film Festival, Sweden
2023, Official Selection, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023, Finalist, Venice Architecture Film Festival, Italy 
2023, Shortlisted, Copenhagen Architecture Festival Film Mosaic Competition, Denmark
2023, Honourable Mention,  ArchiShorts | Architecture+Design Film Festival Winnipeg, Canada

“DAYS AND NIGHTS”
2023, Winner,  ArchiShorts | Architecture+Design Film Festival Winnipeg, Canada
2023, Winner&Jury Vote, MIT in 3:00 Film Competition, USA

“MELT REMELT”
2023, Top3 nomination, Future Trends and Prototypes at Media Architecture Biennale, Canada



EXHIBITION

2023-2024, “Intimate Immensity: Consumed, Depleted and Worn Down at Home”, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China
2022, “Frozen Forces” at Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, Cambridge, USA
2022, “Spines” exhibited at MIT Museum as permanent collection, Cambridge, USA
2021, “Desktop”, Keller Gallery, Cambridge, USA
2020, “Play Room”, Keller Gallery, Cambridge, USA
2018, “Ohlen Freswind: patterns for a community school”, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia



EXCERPTS

Currently: 
Independent Filmmaker, itinerant; 
Researcher and Filmmaker at CEA of ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2024, MacDowell Fellow, Peterborough, USA
2023, Master of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA 
2016-2019, Architecture Designer, Neeson Murcutt Architects, Sydney, Australia
2016, Bachelor of Design in Architecture, The University of Sydney, Australia 
2015, Exchange, University of California, Berkeley, USA